the arms of the Duke of Guise painted on the covers, four hundred and
five pounds; _Poliphile Hypnerotomachie_, Paris, 1561, bound in blue
morocco by Nicolas Eve for Louise de Lorraine, two hundred and twenty
pounds; _Portraits des Rois, Hommes et Dames Illustres_, etc., a series
of the engraved works of Sir Anthony Vandyck, including his own
etchings, in three large folio volumes, two thousand eight hundred and
fifty pounds; _Decor Puellarum_, printed by N. Jenson at Venice in 1471,
in a splendid binding by Monnier--blue morocco, with flowers in various
leathers, and with silk linings, five hundred and thirty pounds; and
_Longi Pastoralia_, printed on vellum by P. Didot at Paris for Junot,
Duke of Abrantes, with drawings by Prud'hon and F. Gerard, nine hundred
pounds.

Beckford wrote other works besides _Vathek_, several of which he left in
manuscript, and a large number of his books contained notes in his
handwriting.

FREDERICK NORTH, FIFTH EARL OF GUILFORD, 1766-1827

Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford, was born on the 7th of February
1766. He was the third and youngest son of Frederick, second Earl, Prime
Minister from January 1770 to March 1782. When his health, which was
very delicate, permitted, he went to Eton, and afterwards became a
student of Christ Church, Oxford. He was created D.C.L. in 1793, and
received the same degree by diploma in 1819. In 1779, through his
father's interest, he obtained the sinecure of one of the Chamberlains
of the Tally Court of the Exchequer, and in 1794 he was appointed to the
Comptrollership of the Customs of the Port of London, when he resigned
the representation of the family borough of Banbury, to which he had
succeeded when his eldest brother, George Augustus, came to the Earldom
in 1792. North was Secretary of State to the Viceroy of the Ionian
Islands during 1795 and 1796, and in 1798 he was made Governor of
Ceylon, a post he held until July 1805. On the death of his brother
Francis, the fourth Earl, in 1817, he succeeded to the Earldom of
Guilford, and in 1819 he was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order
of St. Michael and St. George. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and
a Member of the Eumelean Club. Lord Guilford, who had been received into
the Eastern Church at Corfu in 1791, died unmarried in London on the
14th of October 1827, and was succeeded by his cousin, the Rev. Francis
North, Prebendary of Winchester and Master of the Hospital of St. Cro